they ask you to develop an account …Betterhelp Emotional Support Animal…and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the expense cheaper for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better help offers both kinds of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is good to know that all four alternatives 3 truly to me but they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s absolutely good for some people who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet browser or log in to the mobile app you can’t do both at the same time only one at a time and then you wait for your counselor to sign up with and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely convenient and really available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of various ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it kind of sucks especially considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Emotional Support Animal
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so